While Alan Hale Jr. Had been around hollywood In bit roles for over a decade, this is probably one of the first major parts that he had. He's a saving grace along with the big bands and a black singing group called the Jam Session of the fifth entry in the series that has the gang finally out of high school and in college, this has them trying to form their own college band Is and more opportunities for Freddy Stewart to sing. Hale is a marine sergeant who is given the opportunity to go to college on the G. I. bill, even though he's not too bright.
"How's he gonna learn how to speak algebra if he can't speak English?", dimwitted Warren Mills asks about him, and indeed Hale Is closer to his little buddy Gilligan than he is the skipper. It's a different group of teachers and professors, and they're just as square as the high school instructors Stewart, June Preisser, Mills, Noel Neill and Frankie Darro had.
I doubt any college gives a normal exam with questions like who painted a picture of their mother and instructors whistling as a hint. It's pretty cliched and derivative, and the running time of this entry has been cut down by five minutes so obviously the screen writers weren't straining their minds for unnecessary humor. Basically a curiosity, it's a post war antique that only turns up to heat when the bands pull out the instruments.
"How's he gonna learn how to speak algebra if he can't speak English?", dimwitted Warren Mills asks about him, and indeed Hale Is closer to his little buddy Gilligan than he is the skipper. It's a different group of teachers and professors, and they're just as square as the high school instructors Stewart, June Preisser, Mills, Noel Neill and Frankie Darro had.
I doubt any college gives a normal exam with questions like who painted a picture of their mother and instructors whistling as a hint. It's pretty cliched and derivative, and the running time of this entry has been cut down by five minutes so obviously the screen writers weren't straining their minds for unnecessary humor. Basically a curiosity, it's a post war antique that only turns up to heat when the bands pull out the instruments.
